How To Eat Chitterlings

My grandfather, Walter Cowart, was many things: Mayor of Union City, razor salesman, real estate investor, kudzu promoter and esteemed leader of south Fulton county (which was then Campbell county).

But one of my favorite stories about him was his appreciation of chit’lins (chitterlings), the fried or boiled intestines of a pig.

Here is a newspaper account of one of his Chit’lin Feasts:

Georgia Epicures Chant Praises of Chitterlings

Chitterling History and Recipe

chitterlings on the hoof